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Thanks to Frank, for a really useful account of how to use Google Books.

But I think he underestimates the difficulties facing those of us using a
dialup line, by a factor of about 10.

He wrote-

" ...there's a button that says "Download" and next
| to it "PDF - 37.5M". Now that's not a huge download, and most of these old
| navigation books are in that size range, but on a dial-up line, it will
| still take a while. Supposing you are getting effective download rates of
| 40kbps, this download should take a little more than 15 minutes. This
should
| *not* be a problem for any but the noisiest dial-up Internet connections.
"

My own dialup line normally gives a speed of 50.6 kb. However, these are
kilobaud, or kilobits per second, not kilobytes/sec. To achieve the transfer
time that Frank quotes, of 37.5 Megabytes in 15 minutes, a rate of 40
kilobytes per second would be called for. Perhaps such speeds are indeed
available on US dialup lines, but somehow I doubt it. Certainly not here in
the UK, though.

To download the file he refers to would take me over 2 hours, not 15
minutes.

George.

contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.


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